The press office of the Russian Security Council said Sunday that the head of the body, Nikolai Patrushev, will hold consultations on strategic stability with the member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Yang Jiechi.

He will also hold bilateral talks on security, justice and public order with Guo Shengkun, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

As secretary of the Russian Security Council, Patrushev holds regular meetings with his Chinese colleagues to discuss Moscow and Beijing’s cooperation on global and regional security issues and joint response to current threats and challenges.

The latest of these Russian-Chinese meetings on strategic security took place on May 25, 2021, in Moscow.

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